So I just watched the movie Wanted… And I didn’t have high expectations, but it’s useful to have something fast and simple to watch while I work out because my rowing machine’s just not the most interesting thing.
However, I increasingly was thinking ‘there’s no way my editor would let me get away with this’ and can’t even be bothered to watch the end. (I don’t think the following is really a spoiler, but either way it wouldn’t be stealing movie magic from your life) The firing bullets in a curve thing, I don’t care about. It looks silly but there you go, it’s hollywood. However, the underlying premise is that of a fraternity of assassins keeping the world in balance. Thus far, dumb but I don’t care. it’s where they get their orders from that’s really special… from fate. Yes, the abstract concept is sending them messages, encoded messages. Not via voices from the sky or anything like that, but in binary via errors woven into pieces of cloth.
At this point, I’m getting a little distracted. Do they mean God, for example? What sort of algorithms does fate run and how does it make the decision to inform people? How did it decide to inform people this way in the first place? What happened before the loom was invented? HOW DID THEY CRACK THE CODE IN THE FIRST PLACE? actually, how did they even realise there was a message hidden in the tiny weaves of cloth? Who was inspecting it so carefully around the time of the Norman invasion? And Who believed the crazy person when they said they were getting messages from a fucking inanimate machine?
And then my hour ended and I decided to rant for a minute of LJ and forget I’d ever seen the movie. There was nothing of value in it beyond Angelina Jolie’s tattooed naked back, and by back I mean the bit above where I was looking, so hopefully my brain will delete the useless memories and use the storage space for something more valuable, like the fact I need to buy more garlic for supper.
The comic that it was based on was just as bad.
The comic that it was based on was just as bad.
Ah, so I shouldn’t have deleted the last part? Ok, then I kinda apologise to the writers… but not a huge amount. They’d lost me as a viewer well before they explained themselves.
Ah, so I shouldn’t have deleted the last part? Ok, then I kinda apologise to the writers… but not a huge amount. They’d lost me as a viewer well before they explained themselves.
Hmm, I checked the Wikipedia entry and there’s a lot of talk about the Loom of Fate. Think I would have to stick to my assertion that my editor would hand me my ass if that was the basis of my plot.
Hmm, I checked the Wikipedia entry and there’s a lot of talk about the Loom of Fate. Think I would have to stick to my assertion that my editor would hand me my ass if that was the basis of my plot.
True.
According to Wikipedia, he only started faking it after his name came up in the loom of fate.. so for the thousand years before Morgan came along, fate had been sending them messages. makes more sense if the looom had always been a ruse, but I guess in movies anything ancient need to had proper miffical origins, because people weren’t just plain bastards in olden days….
True.
According to Wikipedia, he only started faking it after his name came up in the loom of fate.. so for the thousand years before Morgan came along, fate had been sending them messages. makes more sense if the looom had always been a ruse, but I guess in movies anything ancient need to had proper miffical origins, because people weren’t just plain bastards in olden days….
Great Gatsby
You’re not the first person with this perspective on the book but I reckon you should give it a second chance, after all, it is called The Great Gatsby so there must be something great about him, however vile he may be. The point is not who Gatsby is because of what he does, but who Gatsby is in spite of the things he does—he’s looking for love and he’s looking to control his life—just like all of us do in lesser or greater degrees. That’s just one thought that occurred to me while doing some research at Shmoop.com. I understand your perspective though and all the best with your writing. And don’t worry about what the literary world will think—I bet the best authors had no idea they were penning classics.
Great Gatsby
You’re not the first person with this perspective on the book but I reckon you should give it a second chance, after all, it is called The Great Gatsby so there must be something great about him, however vile he may be. The point is not who Gatsby is because of what he does, but who Gatsby is in spite of the things he does—he’s looking for love and he’s looking to control his life—just like all of us do in lesser or greater degrees. That’s just one thought that occurred to me while doing some research at Shmoop.com. I understand your perspective though and all the best with your writing. And don’t worry about what the literary world will think—I bet the best authors had no idea they were penning classics.
Still counts. Happy book day!
Still counts. Happy book day!